Ronald L. Nyswaner (born October 5, 1956) is an American screenwriter and film director. He has been nominated for numerous awards including a Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He is known for his screenplays Smithereens (1982), Philadelphia (1993), The Painted Veil (2006), Freeheld (2015), and My Policeman (2022). He is also known as a writer and producer of the Showtime series Ray Donovan (2013–2015) and Homeland (2017–2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Nyswaner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders — Executive Producer
• Fellow Travelers — Executive Producer, Story, Writer, Creator
• 2022Loan Wolves — Producer, Executive Producer
• 2022My Policeman — Screenplay
• Murder on Middle Beach — Executive Producer
• 2015Freeheld — Screenplay
• 2015She's The Best Thing in It — Producer, Camera Operator, Director
• Ray Donovan — Writer, Co-Executive Producer
• 2012Why Stop Now? — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• Homeland — Writer, Co-Executive Producer
• 2007Casting Pearls — Executive Producer
• 2007Filthy Gorgeous — Writer
• 2006The Painted Veil — Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 2003Soldier's Girl — Writer, Co-Producer
• 1997Star Maps — Co-Producer
• 1995Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America — Self - Screenwriter, "Philadelphia"
• 1993Philadelphia — Writer
• 1990Love Hurts — Writer
• 1989Gross Anatomy — Screenplay
• 1988The Prince of Pennsylvania — Director, Writer
• 1984Mrs. Soffel — Writer
• 1984Swing Shift — Additional Writing
• 1982Smithereens — Story, Screenplay
• American Wife — Writer

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2023Commitment to Life — Self
• 2004People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia' — Self
• 1996The Celluloid Closet — Self